Interview with Leah Sonaria - Hathor Priestess

Inspiring Conversation With Leah Sonaria — Flow Priestess of Goddess Hathor, Transformational Guide, Sonic Alchemist , Neteru Medium, Ceremonialist 𓋹

Photos: Private Archive (courtesy of Leah Sonaria)
 

Q: Can you take us back to the very beginning of your awakening and spiritual journey?

I feel I’ve been on a spiritual journey for as long as I can remember. My father was deeply drawn to psychology, tarot, and esoteric studies, though he kept most of it private because my mother didn’t fully approve. Still, I’d peruse his collection as a child, flipping through his books and feeling utterly fascinated by anything mystical or fantastical.

In my twenties, I dove deep into yoga, completing multiple teacher trainings and even launching a yoga clothing company. Yet, my relationship with spirituality at that time was largely intellectual and remained conceptual rather than practical. I hadn’t yet tasted the living pulse of divinity moving through my body yet.

That changed in 2019, when I went through a massive ego death and dark night of the soul. My eleven-year relationship ended, my business crumbled, and everything I’d built around my identity dissolved. What felt like devastation became a portal. I began finding medicine teachers, mentors, and sacred paths that introduced me to the worlds of breathwork, somatics, dance, plant medicine, tantra, trauma healing, creativity, and sacred ceremony.

During the pandemic, I dedicated myself to studying full-time through various mystery schools and teachers, traveling to powerful vortexes like Guatemala, Bali, Egypt, Costa Rica, California, Oregon, and deepening into the lands of my home base of Vancouver Canada. These experiences awakened a profound remembrance that inspired my memoir, Super Kali: Reclaim the Power of Your Blood — a humorous and raw chronicle of my relationship with the Hindu goddess Kali Ma, the fierce mother of destruction who tore my life apart in service to my ascension.

The book traces my journey of healing my Mother Wound after growing up with a war-traumatised refugee mother whose family fled Vietnam in the 1980s. It took five years of deep processing, ceremony, and reflection to complete the thirty-three chapter work of integration. Now, it stands as a healing transmission for anyone ready to reconcile with the Great Mother within themselves and reclaim their embodied power. It is still currently being finalised but I hope to release it in 2026.

Q: When did you first feel the calling to walk the path of the priestess? Was it something that came to you gradually, through intuitive nudges and synchronicities, or was there a powerful moment of initiation where you knew with certainty that this was your path?

The priestess path entered my life almost accidentally — though, of course, there are no accidents in divine design and timing. After my long term relationship ended, I found myself in Guatemala — I like to say I “ran away to join the circus.” There, I met a magical woman at a festival who told me about the ancient blood rite of giving one’s menstrual blood back to the earth as an offering of reciprocity and communion to end war on planet earth. She ran an organisation called Priestessing the Paradigm Shift, which later rebranded to Threaded Red that reawakened women to these forgotten feminine mysteries. It was the first time I heard the word priestess, which sparked both curiosity and aversion due to its religious tone.

Months later, when the pandemic began, I started attending online Goddess rituals and women’s circles. I trained with one of my dearest teachers, Leyolah Antara of the Tantric Rose Mystery School in Australia. These rituals stirred ancient memories in my body — sensations and wisdom that felt older than time and yet so familiar.

After sixteen years on hormonal birth control, I decided to stop and experience a natural bleed for the first time. It was as though I downloaded an entirely new operating system — one that made me more attuned to my intuition, cycles, and psychic gifts. Then, one month into the pandemic, I became pregnant. The timing was intense: a new love, global uncertainty, and a profound crossroads. Having only one ovary after a past surgery that removed a large ovarian cyst, I wasn’t sure I’d get another chance to conceive.

Torn and overwhelmed, I asked for guidance. I poured through Reddit threads and nothing was able to help me feel good about any choice. That’s when I heard a quiet inner voice speak: “Ask your womb. She knows what’s right for you.” When I took the time to consult with her as an oracle in deep meditation, she spoke clearly: “You are not meant to birth a child right now. You are meant to birth a book. The child will come later.”

So I made the sacred, heart-wrenching choice to end the pregnancy. I treated the experience as a ceremonial rite of passage, not as a medical procedure. I began my bleed on the Full Moon — entering a 3-day living initiation where I met Kali Ma face-to-face and actually embodied her essence for real. I experienced death and birth simultaneously, and felt countless karmic loops closing. It was then that my true priestess path began — a portal into embodied awakening that no teacher or book could have given me.

Later, I continued training in official Priestess programs and eventually became ordained by my teacher Leyolah. But the real initiation happened in that blood vortex — where I reclaimed my body as a holy temple and restored my creation power.

Q: What does it mean to you to walk as a modern-day priestess in today’s world ? How do you see this role expressing itself through your everyday life, your service, and your spiritual leadership?

Serving as a priestess in these transitional times feels like both a calling and a sacred duty. Priestesses are returning to collective memory because the world is crossing a massive threshold — one that requires feminine oracular guidance and embodied gnosis.

In ancient times, we were the bridges between worlds, helping societies navigate cycles of death, rebirth and great change. Today, humanity is going through the same process, only this time the bridge extends between consciousness and artificial intelligence. Without spiritual maturity, we risk slipping into unconscious patterns of domination and disconnection.

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Priestesses and light leaders are here to midwife this transition. Gaia herself is evolving and calling her sons and daughters home. Her codes are embedded in our DNA — urging us to remember the sacred order, known as Ma’at in the Egyptian teachings, and to live in harmony and right relationship with the Earth.

For me – as Flow Priestess, walking this path means living in flow consciousness — a state of alignment with divine will, where life unfolds through synchronicity, pleasure, and trust.

My days are guided by intuition more than plans. Opportunities, allies, and students appear exactly when they’re meant to. My role is to track the patterns and pick up on the themes as a way to understand how this world operates.

My work now involves sonic alchemy, energy attunements, and ritual containers that help others awaken dormant DNA and embody their crystalline nature. This path is artistic, erotic, poetic, and deeply alive. It’s a dance between structure and surrender, discipline and devotion — the true essence of divine union.

Q: How did you first connect with the mystical current of ancient Egyptian spirituality, and in which ways the sacred teachings of ancient Egypt weave through your offerings, daily life, and your work?

I was obsessed with Egypt as a child — drawing pyramids, dressing as Cleopatra, spending hours pouring over library books about ancient myths. Then, like many childhood fascinations, it went dormant.

Years later, studying with Leyolah Antara reawakened the lineage. Through dance, breath, and channeled ceremony, I began to feel the presence of the Neteru — the Egyptian gods who revealed themselves not as deities, but as cosmic intelligences and living principles of creation.

After becoming ordained as a Priestess of Isis, I began spontaneously channeling what I later recognised as the Egyptian light language. Sacred words and ancient names poured through me during sound baths, long before I consciously knew their meaning. These transmissions became the foundation of Heka Healing, my signature modality.

In 2022, I journeyed to Egypt for the first time. It was life-changing. Each temple — Philae (Isis), Dendera (Hathor), Karnak (Sekhmet) — unlocked a new octave of remembrance within me. I realised this would be a lifelong apprenticeship, one that required humility, devotion, and the willingness and capacity to clear karmic residue from many lifetimes (experienced as both victim and perpetrator).

Egyptian alchemy is both allegorical and practical. It teaches sovereignty, creative power, and harmony through the principle of Ma’at — balance, divine law and right relationship.

The initiations can be intense, but the rewards are exquisite: beauty, joy, sensuality, and sacred synchronicity woven into daily life. Everything I offer — from energy work to creativity mentorship — is informed by this lineage. It’s the golden thread that guides all of my service.

Q: Hathor is a goddess connected with joy, sensual embodiment, music, creativity, fertility, and the ecstatic flow of life. Can you share how your personal connection with Hathor began? What drew you to her lineage and energy, and how did you come to embrace and embody her priestess path?

Ah, HathorHet-Heru, the Great Cow Goddess, Lady of Joy, Music, and Love. She is the one I most embody and adore. She was the last goddess I worked with in my first priestess training, and when her energy entered the temple, I felt an immediate homecoming. Her frequency was soft yet powerful — nurturing, peaceful – motherly in the most radiant sense. So different from the reactive chaos of the maternal energy I experienced growing up.

When I later visited her temple in Dendera, it brought me to tears. The walls vibrated with music and laughter from another era. I could feel the priestesses who once sang there — sonic alchemists, perfumers, storytellers, anointers, dancers. I knew I had served there before and that I was meant to carry on their ministry.

As I deepened my connection to her, Hathor began guiding me into performance, writing, and music. She became my creative midwife — teaching me that art is devotion, and pleasure is power.

Her guidance also led me into Spirit Baby and fertility healing work. After meeting my teacher, Sarah Naia Soleil, and studying her intuitive method rooted in the Hathorian lineage – everything clicked. In 2022, I ran into Sarah at the Hathor Temple in Dendera — an unmistakable sign that I was meant to become a certified practitioner. Since then, I’ve been offering fertility support through my Quantum Conception Program, a 12-week fertility and creation pathway that channels Hathor’s teachings to help parents manifest life through revolutionary techniques — whether that’s a baby, a book, or a new reality.

Q: What does your daily spiritual practice look like as a priestess? Can you give us a glimpse into the rituals, attunements, or practices that keep you anchored in your feminine flow and spiritual devotion?

Ritual is my language with the divine. My mornings begin with a twenty-minute non-negotiable practice — a fusion of breath, energy work, ritual gestures, gratitude, and invocation that tunes me into my higher field and the rhythm of the cosmos.

Beyond that, my life itself is the ritual. I live in ceremony, guided by intuitive nudges from the land and the elements. I love collaborating with other healers and priestesses in my Vancouver community to create transformational containers — from ecstatic sound journeys to women’s circles and initiatory retreats.

I also host online ceremonies for my global temple and will soon open a 14-day Egyptian Pilgrimage in October 2026. For those who wish to step into my temple, all offerings can be found at www.flowpriestess.com.

 

Q: More and more women today feel a calling to the priestess path — yet they don’t know where to begin. What message can you share with a woman who feels the priestess template awakening deep within but isn’t sure how to take those first steps?

Start by finding the community. This is not a solitary path. The temple is a body — and each of us is a cell within it. In our modern world that still adheres to patriarchal structures, we’ve been programmed for hyper-independence and separation. The priestess path rewires us back into communion — where reciprocity, sisterhood, and trust become our medicine. When women gather, we remember.

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Seek mentors who walk in integrity, whose presence activates something ancient in you. Not every teaching will resonate — discernment is part of your initiation. But find spaces where your heart feels safe and your voice feels welcome. Healing the sister wound — the old patterns of competition, betrayal, and mistrust among women — is essential. When we gather in sacred circle, these distortions unravel. We remember that we rise together.

Q: Your current offerings include “Quantum Conception” and “Healing the Mother Wound with Kali Ma.” Could you share more about the intention and transformation inside these programs?

These two programs are the pillars of my current body of work. Healing the Mother Wound with Kali Ma emerged as the companion course to my memoir Super Kali. It’s an initiation into radical self-liberation — helping women heal inner child wounds, reclaim their power, and transform patterns inherited from dysfunctional mother-daughter dynamics. Kali is fierce grace embodied. She burns away illusion and reveals the truth of your strength beneath the pain.

Quantum Conception is a 12-week creation journey for those seeking to conceive — whether that means a child, a project, or a higher version of themselves. It integrates Hathor’s fertility teachings with energy medicine, karma clearing, ancestral healing, nutrition, herbal allies, sacred sexuality, and spirit baby communication. It’s deeply supportive for couples who’ve struggled with conception or want a more soul-aligned path than IVF or to complement their medical fertility journeys. Ultimately, both programs guide women to remember that their wombs are portalstemples through which divine intelligence births worlds.

Q: How can working with the energy of Hathor — the goddess of fertility, sensuality, and creation — together with energy-healing modalities, support women who are navigating challenges around fertility, conception, and the desire to bring life into the world in a way that feels sacred, conscious, and aligned?

Modern women have been taught to view fertility purely through the medical lens — disconnected from soul and spirit. But fertility is a sacred rite of passage, not a problem to fix. When we honour our wombs as living temples and remember the intelligence they hold, everything changes. The blood, the cycles, the creative ebbs and flows — these are not inconveniences; they are cosmic rhythms moving through us.
Hathor teaches us that fertility is the art of aligning with these cosmic rhythms — cultivating joy, sensuality, and trust in life’s creative currents.

Through energy healing, womb attunement, and conscious relationship with the menstrual blood mysteries, women can [be supported to] heal conditions like PCOS, cysts, and endometriosis, which often stem from unresolved traumas, unexpressed emotions and disconnection from original core blueprints rooted in feminine intelligence. When we reclaim our blood as sacred, we reclaim our power. That remembrance alone could end war within a generation. That’s why it’s my mission to bring this sacred feminine education to as many people as possible.

Q: You also offer energy attunements and voice activations as part of your work. Many women on the spiritual or priestess path encounter deep blocks around creative and vocal expression — what are some of the most common blocks you see when it comes to women expressing their truth and creative power through their voice, and how can throat chakra healing and voice activation help women reclaim their authentic expression?

My voice journey has been one of the deepest initiations of my life. I always knew I could sing, but fear of judgment kept me silent for years. It was in Guatemala, while sitting in song circles and doing open mics, that I first experienced medicine music. Later, during a year-long apprenticeship with UK based medicine singer Sarah Patterson where I sang with a small group for four hours every week, I began liberating my voice through channeled song and devotional sound. My light language finally came through, which has evolved quite a lot since those early days.

The voice is the bridge between light and matter. When we tone, chant, or sing, we literally reorganise our cells and restructure our biology to a higher order of being through frequency.

The biggest block I see is the persecution wound — the ancestral imprint from times when women were punished or silenced for their magic. This manifests as fear of visibility, judgment, or being too much or not enough.

Writing my story helped me heal that. Every time I spoke a truth I once hid, I broke a spell of suppression. Now, I guide others through this process — to sound freely, to sing with the earth, to channel languages their soul remembers. It’s liberation through resonance.

Q: In addition to your priestess work, you are also an author. Could you tell us a little about your previous book — what inspired it, what themes it explores, and what message or activation you hoped to share through it — and about your new book, which you are currently in the process of writing?

Super Kali is my initiation story — a memoir of awakening, destruction, and rebirth through the dark mother Kali Ma. It chronicles my healing of the mother wound and reclamation of sacred blood power through my abortion.

My next book, Hieros Gamos: The Horus Game, is a continuation of that journey. It documents my five months in Egypt and two years of exploration of divine union — both within myself and through the mirror of romantic love. It’s written as a modern mythopoetic priestess odyssey, weaving myth, magic, and personal transformation together in a juicy 42 chapter story based on Isis’ remembering of Osiris’ 42 dismembered parts.

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I believe storytelling is a form of alchemy. Every time I integrate an initiation through writing, life gifts me another to live and transmute. I also mentor people to write their own memoirs as sacred texts of remembrance and integration.

Q: As a Hathor and Flow Priestess, creativity is a core part of your path. You also weave sound healing and the co-creation of music with attunements and transmissions into your work. In ancient temples, music and sacred sound were often used as gateways to altered states of consciousness, emotional release, and spiritual activation and initiation. Why is creative expression — through voice, sound, or art — important for women today, especially those walking a spiritual or priestess path, and how can reconnecting with our innate creative current become a profound medicine for both the individual and the collective?

Sound is the original healer. Before there was language, there was vibration — the hum of creation. In ancient temples, sound was used to alter consciousness and awaken divine memory. Today, I see the same power moving through music, art, and creative expression. They’re not luxuries — they’re evolutionary tools.

When we create from a place of innocence and curiosity, we access flow — the ecstatic current where the divine and human meet. Creativity opens neural pathways, releases trauma, and re-attunes us to harmony. In an age saturated with artificial creation, authentic art — made from heart and hand — is revolutionary and helps us understand who we are as human beings. It keeps the sacred pulse of humanity alive.

Q: You are also an oracle, and you channel a unique light language — Heka. How would you describe the essence of the Heka light language modality, the kind of frequencies or activations it carries, and the role it plays in your work and transmissions today?

Heka is the ancient Egyptian word for “magic through sound” — the creative power of the word. My channel for the Heka Light Language opened after my Priestess of Isis ordination with my teacher Leyolah Antara. In meditation and through ceremonial sound baths, I began speaking a language of light — tones and syllables that carried immense energetic coherence and healing power.

Heka is a multidimensional unity language connected to 64 divine codes of creation, each activating a specific aspect of the KA, or light body. This is a whole system that I am currently channeling through and interpreting through my healing practice. It’s not something to analyse – but to feel. It bypasses the mind and goes straight to the source code of the soul.

During sessions, I transmit these frequencies and unique Heka sequences to help clear blockages, transmute ancestral and karmic imprints, and restore flow. The experience often feels like being sung back into wholeness by the cosmos and stepping into an evolutionary current that pulls you towards your divine purpose.

Q: For readers who feel drawn to the path of Hathor, Isis, or the priestess archetype of other lineages… what are some of the first steps they can take to explore this calling more deeply? Are there particular rituals, meditations, or sacred practices that you would recommend for cultivating a personal relationship with these goddesses and beginning to embody the priestess path in daily life?

First and foremost, follow your heart and let yourself be led by resonance. Allow your curiosity to guide you down the esoteric rabbit hole.

Study with lineage holders who embody what they teach — whose energy feels clean and whose presence awakens remembrance in you. Read, listen, attend ceremonies, and most importantly, practice discernment. There are so many resources out there to support your spiritual journey. Set the intention and the support will arrive.

If you feel called to work with Isis, Hathor, or the Magdalene lineage, you can explore my offerings and free masterclasses at www.flowpriestess.com. My temple is always open to anyone ready to activate their highest creative potential and superpowers.

Q: What has walking the modern priestess path taught you about love, power, and ancient Divine Feminine wisdom, and what is your vision for the future of modern priestesshood? How do you see women’s spiritual awakening — and the remembrance of the priestess within — shaping the evolution of our world in the years to come?

A: It has taught me that love and power are not opposites — they are two wings of the same bird. True power is love embodied.

The Egyptian path is tantric at its core — it teaches us to integrate polarity, to merge heaven and earth, masculine and feminine, light and dark. Through this dance, we birth new templates for relationship and leadership on the planet — ones rooted in respect, reciprocity, and devotion to life itself.

My vision for the future is a world of living temples — sanctuaries run by oracular counsels where people gather to heal, learn, and celebrate life. My highest calling is to steward virtual and physical spaces where ancient wisdom meets modern necessity – a sacred community space that serves all members of society.

As more women awaken the priestess and womb power within, we will naturally usher in a golden age — one of coherence, harmony, and remembrance. The divine feminine is not rising against the masculine, but with him — in sacred union, birthing a new world together so everyone can truly remember who they are and offer their unique gifts to the world in the most impactful ways.

This interview was featured in an exclusive digital issue of Sretna Žena Magazine Manifestacija (Manifestation). To read more about Leah Sonaria and her sacred ceremonies, healing work, music, and offerings, visit her website or connect with her via Instagram @flowpriestess.